Species Pinctada maxima (Jameson, 1901)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Avicula anomioides Reeve, L.A. 1857. Monograph of the genus Avicula. pls 1-17 in Reeve, L.A. (ed.). Conchologia Iconica. London : L. Reeve & Co. Vol. 10. [Pl. 9, fig. 26].

  Type locality references:

  Huber, M. 2010. Compendium of Bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. [602] (Type locality designated as Andaman Islands).
• Pteria (Margaritifera) maxima Jameson, L.H. 1901. On the identity and distribution of the mother-of-pearl oysters, with a revision of the subgenus Margaritifera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1901: 372-394, figs 92-95 [372].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Huber, M. 2010. Compendium of Bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. [602 and CD-ROM line 4385]

 

Generic Combinations

• Meleagrina anomioides (Reeve, 1857).
• Pinctada anomioides (Reeve, 1857).
• Meleagrina maxima (Jameson, 1901). —
  Hedley, C. 1910. The marine fauna of Queensland. Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science 12: 329-371 [Date published December] [344]
• Pinctada maxima (Jameson, 1901). —
  Hedley, C. 1916. A preliminary index of the Mollusca of Western Australia. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 1: 152-226 [155] (new combination)

 

Introduction

Huber (2010: 602) put forward the earlier name Pinctada anomioides (Reeve, 1857) as the valid name to be used for this species. However, the name Pinctada maxima (Jameson, 1901) has been in long term usage and, even if the provisions of ICZN art. 23.9 do not apply to declare it “nomen oblitum”, the case should be brought to the ICZN. Meanwhile, the name in prevailing usage, Pinctada maxima, is here maintained as “accepted” for this commercially important species.

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Central Indo-West Pacific, and Western Pacific. Dubious record of this species from North of Sydney NSW in the Australian Museum Sydney mollusc collection

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine, rock bottom–marine, sand bottom marine, subtidal.

Extra Ecological Information

To 80 m

 

General References

Allan, J.K. 1950. Australian shells: with related animals living in the sea, in freshwater and on the land. Melbourne : Georgian House xix, 470 pp., 45 pls, 112 text figs. [266, pl. 1, fig. 1]

Blackburn, H. & Green, J. 1976. Marine shells of the Darwin area. Darwin : Museums and Art Galleries Board of the Northern Territory pp. 1-23. [fig. 85]

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific marine shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls. [177, pl. 62, fig. 3]

Cunha, R.L., Blanc, F., Bonhomme, F. & Arnaud-Haond, S. 2010. Evolutionary Patterns in Pearl Oysters of the Genus Pinctada (Bivalvia: Pteriidae). Marine Biotechnology DOI: 10.1007/s10126-010-9278-y. pp. 1436-2228

Curtis, E.L., Evans, B.S., Taylor, J.J.U. & Jerry, D.R. 2007. Population genetics of a marine bivalve, Pinctada maxima, throughout the Indo-Australian Archipelago shows differentiation and decreased diversity at range limits. Molecular Ecology 16(24): 5193-5203

Da Hui Yu & Ka Hou Chu 2006. Species identity and phylogenetic relationship of the pearl oysters in Pinctada Roding, 1798 based on ITS sequence analysis. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology 34(3): 240-250

Dix, T.G. 1973. Histology of the mantle and pearl sac of the pearl oyster Pinctada maxima (Lamellibranchia). Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 2(4): 365-375

Hedley, C. 1916. A preliminary index of the Mollusca of Western Australia. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 1: 152-226 [155]

Huber, M. 2010. Compendium of Bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim, Germany : ConchBooks 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.

Hynd, J.S. 1955. A revision of the Australian pearl-shells, genus Pinctada (Lamellibranchia). Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 6: 98-137 [110] (taxonomic characters; generic names; generic subdivisions and phylogenetic relationships; Key to Australian species; description of species; doubtful species and records)

Iredale, T. 1939. Mollusca. Part 1. British Museum (Natural History), London. Great Barrier Reef Expedition, 1928-29. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929 5(6): 209-425, pls 1-75 [335]

Jackson, D.J., McDougall, C., Woodcroft, B., Moase, P., Rose, R.A.,Kube, M., Reinhardt, R., Rokhsar, D.S.., Montagnani, C., Joubert, C., Piquemal, D. & Degnan, B.M. 2010. Parallel evolution of nacre building gene sets in molluscs. Molecular Biology and Evolution 27(3): 591-608

Lamprell, K. & Healy, J. 1998. Bivalves of Australia. Leiden : Backhuys Publishers Vol. 2 288 pp. [102, fig. 248]

McMichael, D.F. 1960. Shells of the Australian sea-shore. Brisbane : Jacaranda Press 127 pp., 287 figs. [Date published December] [22, fig. 15]

Melvill, J.C. & Standen, R. 1899. Report on the marine Mollusca obtained during the first expedition of Prof. A.C. Haddon to the Torres Straits in 1888-89. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 27: 150-206, pls 1-2 [183] (as Meleagrina anomioides (Reeve, 1857) for Torres Strait material by other authors)

Odhner, N.H. 1917. Results of Dr E. Mjöbergs Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia. 1910–1913, pt XVII, Mollusca. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 52(16): 1–115 pls 1–3 [Date published 19 Sept. 1917] [8]

Takemura, Y. & Kafuku, T. 1957. Anatomy of the silver-lip pearl oyster Pinctada maxima (Jameson). Bulletin of the Tokai Regional Fisheries Research Laboratory 16: 1-40

Takemura, Y. & Okutani, T. 1958. On the identification of species of Pinctada found attached to Pinctada maxima in the Arafura Sea. Bulletin of the Tokai Regional Fisheries Research Laboratory 20: 47-60, pls 1-3

Tëmkin, I. 2010. Molecular phylogeny of pearl oysters and their relatives (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Pterioidea). BMC Evolutionary Biology 10(342): 1-28

Wada, K.T. & Tëmkin, I. 2008. Chapter 2. Taxonomy and phylogeny. pp. 37-74 in Southgate, P.C. & J.S. Lucas. The Pearl Oyster. Oxford, UK and Amsterdam, The Netherlands : Elsevier pp. i-xiii, 1-574.

 

Common Name References

Cernohorsky, W.O. 1978. Tropical Pacific marine shells. Sydney : Pacific Publications 352 pp., 68 pls. [177] (Golden Lip Oyster)

Wilson, B. 2002. A handbook to Australian seashells on seashores east to west and north to south. Sydney : Reed New Holland 185 pp. [40, pl. 41E] (Gold-lip Pearl Oyster)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
22-Aug-2023	BIVALVIA	22-Aug-2023	MOVED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
23-Oct-2014	BIVALVIA	28-Jun-2016	MODIFIED	ABRS
11-Aug-2014		11-Aug-2014	MOVED
11-Aug-2014	PTERIOIDEA	03-Jul-2013	MODIFIED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM)
11-Aug-2014		17-Nov-2010	ADDED
		17-Nov-2010	MODIFIED